Parents' Guide to Preventing Child Abduction, Kidnapping, and Missing Children

Parents' Guide to Preventing Child Abduction, Kidnapping, and Missing Children
Author: KidGuard Editorial KidGuard Editorial Team
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781548291860

It's the worst thing that can ever happen to a parent - Your child is missing. With child abduction making headline news around the world on an almost daily basis and with famous kidnap stories remaining in the public eye - often for decades after a child has been found - it is no wonder that parents list abduction as one of their biggest fears. But is this fear justified? Here are some facts about child abduction that every parent needs to know.

Missing Children

Missing Children
Author: James N. Tedisco
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1996-03-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780791428801

Focuses on variables that assist in confronting and preventing child abductions, including teacher training, public education and awareness, psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of abducted children as well as the children themselves.

Missing Children

Missing Children
Author: James N. Tedisco
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780791428795

Child abduction is the most widespread form of child victimization studied. In 1992 alone, a total of 27,553 cases of missing children were reported in New York State through the Missing Children Register. The majority of missing children cases involved suspected runaways. Abduction cases accounted for one percent of the total report; those committed by family members comprised the most frequent form of abduction (as opposed to abduction by strangers). In addition, 88 percent of the children reported missing were age 13 or older, 60 percent were girls, and 58 percent were white. Child abduction is a serious socio-economic problem. Until now there has been no text that addresses the incidence, psychological dimensions, and explanatory models of child abductions. This book fills a need by focusing on variables that assist in confronting and preventing child abductions, including teacher training, public education and awareness, psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of abducted children as well as the children themselves.

When Your Child is Missing

When Your Child is Missing
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1998
Genre: Family counseling
ISBN:

Affords "parents the critical information, guidance and tools they may need to work with law enforcement agencies to help find their missing child."

Missing and Abducted Children

Missing and Abducted Children
Author: Phillip Melvin Wishon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1987
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

The purpose of this pamphlet is to aid teachers, counselors, administrators, paraprofessionals, and other support personnel in alleviating the problem of missing and abducted children. After an introductory overview of the national incidence of missing children, three specific categories of missing children are identified and discussed: runaways, parent abductions, and abductions by unknown persons. The ensuing sections identify measures schools can take to prevent abductions: tracking students; identification of students; working with parents (including a list of 24 suggestions that schools should communicate to parents); working with students (including a list of 20 suggestions for children to help ensure their personal safety); and a checklist for making schools safe. The next sections provide steps to follow in reporting a child missing, reporting the discovery of a missing child, and reintegrating an abduction victim into the classroom. A brief bibliography is provided, and the following lists are appended: (1) U.S. corporations involved in the problem of missing children (15 entries); (2) organizations with information about missing children (28 entries); and (3) resources for teachers and parents on the problem of missing children (28 citations). (TE)

Grown and Flown

Grown and Flown
Author: Lisa Heffernan
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1250188954

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.